Dictionary:

magot

  (mă-gō', măg'ət)

1. See Barbary ape.
2. A fanciful, often grotesque figurine in the Japanese or Chinese style rendered in a crouching position.

[French, from Old French magos, a kind of monkey, from Magog, Magos, Magog, name of biblical land (Ezekiel 38–39) and tribe (Revelation 20:8–9), used as an emblem of ugliness in medieval romances.]